The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
FENCES
Definition of FENCES
noun
plural of fence
noun
A thin artificial barrier that separates two pieces of land or forms a perimeter enclosing the lands of a house, building, etc.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Word DNA
FENCES inherits its ancestry from its root, FENCE.
Line of descent
- Old French
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
9th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
2.9%
of traced words share this origin (2,385)
branch · 12.8% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, FENCE · 5 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Old English.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
FENCES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 44, 3 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 112, 9 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 53 days.
First found by a player on Day 44, 3 July 2026.
Built from these letters
FENCES starts with F and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CEEFNS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Could you have found FENCES?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 44 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER